Timeline for what does "First quality" mean?
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 10:49 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | As used it needs a hyphen. Otherwise, you are referring to the first coffee Starbucks has sold that is of significant quality, implying that all previous types they sold were inferior. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 9:53 | comment | added | WS2 | If I don't like Starbucks coffee, and I avoid it like the plague, could I say that Starbucks is notorious for its last quality coffee? It doesn't make much sense, so why would first quality coffee? | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 6:37 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Jun 28, 2015 at 6:25 | comment | added | Fattie | it's simply a silly advertising phrase, meaning the same as "first-rate" "best-quality" or any similar hyperbolic phrase. Personally I would use a hyphen: first-quality. Note that you can modify "quality" with all sorts of adjectives ... "best quality" "worst quality" and so on. "First" here is sort of strange as an adjective, but there it is. If you simply look in the OED it gives many examples such as first love, first place, first base etc - it's certainly possible to say first quality. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 5:24 | answer | added | Tonepoet | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 5:16 | answer | added | Bookeater | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 5:00 | answer | added | Free Radical | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 4:50 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |